The Numerical Tarot is divided into four distinct, but still very inter-dependent decks. Each deck is considered to be a variation on a single theme, that of a number line. In the world of The Numerical Tarot, a number line is seen as an extremely abstract representation of the individual stages and theoretical limits of a model of existence that this deck uses to describe the essence of being.

In designing a deck around a theoretical model of existence, this deck makes a few changes to the traditional form of a tarot deck. In many ways this deck is not so much a tarot deck, as it is a pictoral, symbolic representation of the essence of being, as described in the book ...

All Things Are Numbers

The book that goes with this deck builds a model in your mind's eye that attempts to describe the indescribable nature of being. It then labels the parts of this model with numbers. When those numbers are attached to the symbolic illustrations and anthropomorphised icons of a specific cullture's mythology, an etymological link is suggested from logical abstract ideas to subjective human symbolism.

As a series of number lines, the Major Trumps show the stages of a simple ameliorate and deteriorate progression. The Minor Suits then repeat the qualities of the Majors with two cards for its every one. The Court is then seen as a number Line crossed as a grid. And the Quaternary is seen as a number line folded in half.

Below there are three charts that show different ways in which this deck can be divided and viewed. Click on the first link and see Majors and Minors arranged as ameliorate and deteriorate concepts along a spine. This first chart also accentuates the Parent/Child relationship that this deck theorizes to exist between Majors and Minors. Click on a link in the second chart and it will open a window with a layout of each individual deck together as a set, so you can see cards together as a progression of ideas. The third chart allows you to go directly to individual cards. From there you can navigate to other individual cards. Individual cards come with some interpretations and keywords.

You can also examine the names and titles of this deck separately from the images by studying a series of charts that sort out key words into Adjectives, Nouns and Verbs.

As a Number Line...

Four variations on a theme...

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Pick a card, any card...